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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: distributed attack, high or not
"Joseph T. Klein" wrote: > I saw what appears to be a distributed attack against a single IP > address that reached nearly 500Mbs. I was thinking that this is > high. Are people seeing any random attacks of this magnitude? > -- > Joseph T. Klein > [email protected] We have seen attacks of this magnitude on a rise. Most of the attacks however haven't been spoofed. Spoofing is not really needed when generating an attack of this size from possibly thousands of machines, especially when targeting only a single IP. The ability to track such a large attack with so many sources is fairly slim. When seeing so many random sources I wouldn't immediately assume it's spoofed. -- Tom Sands Chief Network Engineer RackSpace Managed Hosting [email protected] (210)892-4000
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